Series star Rob Lowe tweeted: "Latest surprise drop by on set: Speaker Newt Gingrich! So we made up a scene and put him in! #AllHappeningInIndy."

Gingrich now joins a list of pols, including Vice President Biden and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who have had their star turns on Parks and Recreation, which is about a mid-level bureaucrat in fictional Pawnee, Ind.